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Monday, February 27, 2012

OCCUPY THE LANGUAGE

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
There is a debate going on in the progressive community that has
received little commentary from the alternative media: Does the use of such
terms as “fascism” and “revolution” undermine our credibility or do alternatives
such as “managed democracy” and “transformational change” obscure the urgent
necessity for coordinated action to overturn the corporate economic and
political power structure of the US and the world?
Propaganda depends on the use of emotionally evocative language to penetrate
the overwhelmed consciousness of citizens under siege. The corporate media and
politicians use fear to control confused Americans by directing their anger at
those with whom they should be uniting in the common cause of liberty and
justice for all. This is how the corporatocracy keeps us divided rather than uniting
to struggle together to establish a government of, by and for the People. Only
when we find a way to overcome the great divide between the self-identified
Left and Right will we establish a system of government that will be a model
for other nations struggling to achieve democracy. Use of emotionally powerful
language designed to elicit positive feelings of empowerment and common purpose
has a place in our strategy.
The first step in achieving the level of consensus needed to radically
transform American political consciousness is for those of us who understand
what America has become and what it aspires to be to agree on the content of
the message. How we express it should depend on who we are trying to reach in
any given context. When speaking with each other we should avoid euphemisms
that mask the reality of what we are up against. If we cannot be frank with
each other then we risk confusing a just-awakening American public with a watered-down
explanation of the constitutional crisis we face.
The word “fascism” is emotionally laden. When used to describe America’s corporate
controlled government, there is a risk that people who accept the myth of
American exceptionalism will reject our message outright. When speaking to
general audiences about the need for a constitutional amendment it is
preferable to use the term “special interests” to identify who pose the true
threat to democracy that those on the Left and Right both perceive. It is
useless to debate those who believe that unions have too much power over the
electoral process that they are wrong. The winning strategy to start real debate is
acknowledging that neither organized labor nor corporate CEOs ought to have the
power to determine who will represent all of us.
The arguments over the word “revolution” are more complex. The term can be used
in an inflammatory way that undermines the common goal of a nonviolent,
democratic Revolution. The corporate media and politicians use the phrase to
denote the “Second amendment solution” that “leaders” of the Tea Party use to
keep ablaze the anger on which their popularity depends.
Most Americans accept what they were taught in school that the Founders
established the a democratic government through a constitution that is treated
with the reverence of the Bible.The
thought of ordinary farmers giving their lives so that the last, best hope for Mankind
might take root obscures the fact that when the Revolutionary War was over only
10% of citizens had the right to vote.
Under the original constitution only white men with property could vote.
Democracy has remained an ideal. The struggle to realize it has defined
American history. From the Civil War to the fight against the Robber Barons led
by the union movement to women’s suffrage, Americans have sought to create a more
perfect union where liberty and justice might be enjoyed by all. At each step,
reactionary economic elites have sought to contain and reverse those gains. As
Americans have lost sight of the stated goals of the original Revolution, we
have crept ever closer to the line that divides fascist societies from
democratic ones.
To end the Civil War and finish the Revolution, Right and Left must unite to
free the American government from the grip of international corporate
terrorists who control it. Transnational corporations have no allegiance to the
US or any other nation or its Peoples. Overturning a system of corporate
privilege must be our goal if our children are to be free of the grip of global
fascism that our parents and grandparents fought and died for in wars from the
American Revolution to WW II. That makes ours an international struggle in
which we must try to enlist all who have hope and a willingness to struggle
together to save human civilization.

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OUR GOAL: The eradication of war by restoring democracy in America.

OUR MISSION: To challenge the US Congress to put the needs of the people above those of their plutocratic sponsors. We can only establish democracy in America and the world by working together to abolish the "rights" of corporations and those who control them to determine the collective destiny of the Peoples of the United States and of the world.

THE PROBLEM: is not that the American government does not work. It works fine for those who own it, just not for the people of America. It is corporate control of Congress that permits the enslavement of Peoples of other nations and ultimately, Americans as well.

Now that the global economic elite are bringing their tools of subjugation to the United States, we must fight back together to ensure that the hope of government of the People, by the People and for the People does not perish from the Earth.

Together, we can mend the social fabric of a broken nation and assure liberty and justice for all the Peoples of the planet we share.

War and lack of health care are symptoms of the same disease: corporate control of the US government. That is why we must take back America for the people by working to pass a Constitutional amendment to get corporate money out of elections and abolish corporate personhood. This is the essential first step to creating true representative government.

Until Americans learn to fight their common enemy instead of each other, there is no reason to expect real change. We must put aside our differences to fight the imposition of a corporate New World Order if we are going to ensure that our children grow up in a rational, sustainable world where war is but a memory.